Then there's the slippery slope of, "who determines if a person's quality of
life is mediocre?"    A doctor could look at Case, for example, and say his
quality of life isn't good, and have him "euthanized."   It has happened
before, in the little Holocaust. Nazi Germany euthanized (murdered) more
than 600,000 people just like us, in the T4 program.   Please don't go down
that slide.   

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From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Linda Walker
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 4:16 PM
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Subject: Re: FW: Melanie Phillips's Articles has been updated

This is just me but I think, but obviously cannot know, that I would 
rather be given a lethal injection or something like that rather than 
stay in a permanent vegetative state. I think euthanasia is a 
rational approach to quality of life issues. Unlike Meir, I am not a 
religious person so those factors do not affect my decisions.
When my father was dying of multiple autonomic failure it was a long 
process and they took extraordinary means to keep him alive long 
after he was ready to die. Twice they saved him when he would have 
rather they let him go because his quality of life was so diminished. 
We had talked about this while he was sick but before he lost his 
ability to communicate by talking. You could see in his eyes though 
that he was ready to die and disappointed to wake up again.
These are difficult questions but I want to be able to make my 
decision based on  what I think. I do not however want to make the 
decision for anyone else who thinks differently about it. It is true 
that the brain recovers very slowly.

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